ARTEFACT

A requiem for obsolete technology.

Artefact is a live performance and video project made in collaboration with Willoh S.Weiland. For this work Brennan has created a new composition for classical choir, death metal vocalists and organ. The work was first presented in October 2016 at ANTI FESTIVAL, as a sunset concert in Kuoppio, Finland. The film is currently in post production.

The composition was performed live in Puijo Church, conducted by Brennan and Anna Antikainen (FI), followed by the ritual burying of a 15 tonne stone in an outer urban wasteland. Marking the burial site is a permanent public object, designed for the future by those from the past, to commemorate our current obsessions.

The work represents a funeral for technology that has fallen into obsolescence. The mysterious phenomenon of brand disappearance. A tribute to the immortal consumer icons we have internationally adored and the intimate and fickle ways we worship them.

We farewell the products that have formed us with performance, sound, documentary and pathos.

This inter-generational work was created with the community of Kuopio, featuring some of its best loved choirs, death metal singers and a living timeline from senior citizens to wild children.

Artefact is a co-production by ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival and Aphids Events. The project is supported by the Saastamoinen Foundation and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.